Too bad we can't hit the big old delete button and make the catsite go bye bye............

I really don't see what there is to prove about the consumer affairs postings - lots & LOTS of pets have been getting sick when fed Nutro, and get better when they stop eating it.  This has been going on for some time.  Obviously it's time someone looked into WHY this is happening.

Just because the company refuses to test the food, or maybe it's just that they refuse to report the results, does not mean it's not happening and these people are imagining their pets are getting sick, or that there is some big anti-Nutro conspiracy going on & people are putting in fake posts about sick pets.

The site is a place to post problems on things we purchase, and when so many keep posting problems with no response from the company, I guess they decided to compile the info into a report so it gets put into a more official format. 

I hope something does come of this and the problem is uncovered & solved.  That way anyone choosing to continue feeding this line of foods will be less likely to be putting their pets' health in danger. 

I know, Mary, it just doesn't make sense.  How anyone can read through those complaints then state they aren't facts does not make sense to me. 

Does a company have to officially come out & say "our product is defective, it has X in it & we are recalling it" to make reports of sick pets legitimate?  During the recalls last year, were the pets that got sick & died not actually sickened from the food until it was officially proven through testing that the food was bad?

I guess the only way it makes sense to call the reports unfactual is if you think a there is a national conspiracy against the company going on.  Strange.

As a long-term member of The Cat Site, and part of its moderating team, I feel called upon to address some misperceptions that are apparent in this thread.

Every board has its own forum rules, which participants agree to respect when they become members. At The Cat Site, the board's rules are openly posted in the forum welcoming new members, as well as elsewhere at the site; all members are also reminded to review and abide by the rules every time they post. I'm sure those of you who are also members there can attest to that.

Out of respect for our members' privacy, we don't discuss matters relating to them in public. However, I can say this much: The thread in question was not deleted by the moderating team, but temporarily removed for review and then returned to the board. Perhaps thousands of threads have been removed, reviewed and returned by the team over the last several years, and that will undoubtedly be the case with countless others in the future. Threads are not deleted because members post allegedly dissenting views. We do, though, attempt to ensure that they do so in a polite manner, in keeping with the forum rules and respecting differences in culture, experience and opinions. Members are asked to discuss private disputes in personal messages, not on the board itself.

Many TCS members are also members of the itchmo forums; many more, like myself, regularly visit the site, receive the newsletter, and cite news items they have found here. This has particularly been the case since the massive pet food recall, which the vast majority of TCS members are very much aware of, and which has been discussed at length there from the time the recalls were first announced.

It saddens me to see posts here that might be construed as calls for some sort of "board war". TCS, which is privately owned, by the way, and not by a major pet food company, as some people are insinuating, certainly isn't interested in anything but peacefully co-existing with other sites promoting pet welfare, and in view of the shared membership, such a development would be pointless and counterproductive.
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Jcat,

Just trying to get posters to post TRUE FACTS at both sites and not 'words that cannot be proven'.

jcat,

Do the rules of your forum allow your members to post links to threads in the itchmo forums?

JustMe

I certainly wouldn't think of Itchmo forums as a "competing" website.  I'd consider it a "superior" website.